Bill Nestell

Bill Nestell

Born: March 3, 1893
Died: October 18, 1966
in San Francisco, California, USA

Movies for Bill Nestell...

Belle of the Yukon
Title: Belle of the Yukon
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Left by a con man, Belle De Valle, a dancer, finds him again in gold-rush Alaska running an honest casino/dance hall.
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Call of the Rockies
Title: Call of the Rockies
Character: Poisoned Miner Jim
Released: July 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion ring. Sunset and Frog must then go undercover to set things right for a mining town under siege. Galloping hooves, spittin' six shooters, and all manner of disreputable behavior ensue.
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The Woman of the Town
Title: The Woman of the Town
Character: Townsman
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Bat Masterson, who after failing to secure a job as a newspaper reporter becomes marshal of Dodge City. Preferring socializing to peacekeeping, Masterson falls in love with Dora Hand, the obligatory golden-hearted chorus girl whose concern for the welfare of her fellow citizens at time reaches Madonna-like dimensions. When Dora is shot down cattle baron King Kennedy, Masterson begins taking his job seriously. After taking care of Kennedy, Masterson determines to enshrine the memory of Dora, whose efforts to clean up Dodge City were largely ignored by the "decent" townsfolk.
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Leather Burners
Title: Leather Burners
Character: Bartender
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Johnny sends for his friend Hoppy, Hoppy arrives and immediately suspects Dan Slack. Realizing his telegram about Slack was intercepted, he locks up the operator Lafe knowing he can escape. Tailing Lafe he finds a secret entrance to a mine and inside finds the missing cattle. But Slack's men also find him just as the cattle are stampeded through the mine shaft.
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Buckskin Frontier
Title: Buckskin Frontier
Character: Whiskers
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Title: Calling Wild Bill Elliott
Character: Bar Tough with Cigar
Released: April 30, 1943
Type: Movie
When territorial governor Steven Nichols (Herbert Heyes) terrorizes the population with violence and heavy taxes, the Culver family stands up to him, but after the family patriarch is murdered, wandering gunslinger Wild Bill Elliott (Wild Bill Elliott) is falsely accused of the crime.
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The Ghost Rider
Title: The Ghost Rider
Character: Bartender Bill
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
The first of a long-running series of Monogram-produced westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton that replaced the Rough Riders series following the death of Buck Jones in the Boston night club fire. Though the next three years featured Brown (as Nevada Jack McKenzie) and Hatton (in his Sandy Hopkins role from the Rough Riders series) as undercover marshals in some form or another, this initial entry had Brown as a lone rider seeking vengeance and he and Hatton's characters were unknown to each other through most of the film. Hopkins offer McKenzie a marshal's job at the end of the film, which the Brown character declined and rode off alone on his quest. This quest didn't take long as by the next film in the series Nevada Jack McKenzie was a full-fledged U. S. Marshal.
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Border Patrol
Title: Border Patrol
Character: Mine Guard
Released: April 2, 1943
Type: Movie
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Burly Deputy
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Silver Queen
Title: Silver Queen
Character: Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1942
Type: Movie
A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.
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Overland Mail
Title: Overland Mail
Character: Man in Cafe
Released: September 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.
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Come on Danger
Title: Come on Danger
Character: Barfly
Released: June 5, 1942
Type: Movie
When a woman turns outlaw, she is suspected of murder.
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In Old California
Title: In Old California
Character: Townsman
Released: May 31, 1942
Type: Movie
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
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Down Texas Way
Title: Down Texas Way
Character: Smitty the Blacksmith
Released: May 22, 1942
Type: Movie
"The Rough Riders", has U. S. Marshals Buck Roberts (Buck Jones) and Tim McCall (Tim McCoy) coming to a Texas town to visit their friend, U. S. Marshal Sandy Hopkins (Raymond Hatton), only to learn that he has disappeared, and is suspected of the murder of John Dodge (Jack Daley), owner of practically the whole town, except the hotel Sandy owns and runs when he isn't on an assignment as a Marshal. The murder has been committed by the henchmen of Bart Logan (Harry Woods), who intends to take over the dead man's property and whose men are holding Sandy prisoner to make it appear that he fled after arguing with and killing Dodge. Just before the murder, Logan sent a letter to Dodge with the news that the latter's long-missing wife is returning, and in a short while, Stella (Lois Austin), a Logan accomplice, arrives posing as the missing Ann Dodge, thus establishing her right to the Dodge property. Sandy, allowed to escape, returns ... Written by Les Adams
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Stagecoach Buckaroo
Title: Stagecoach Buckaroo
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.
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Below the Border
Title: Below the Border
Character: Blacksmith
Released: January 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Scully has forced Joe Collins who works on the Garcia ranch to give him information so his men can steal the family jewels. But the Rough Riders are on the job. Buck poses as a wanted outlaw to get into the gang, Tim as a cattle buyer, and Sandy is collecting information as the saloon janitor. As usual they pretend not to know each other. Written by Maurice Van Auken
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Forbidden Trails
Title: Forbidden Trails
Character: Henchman
Released: December 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked saloon owner who has the same idea.
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Secret of the Wastelands
Title: Secret of the Wastelands
Character: Horse Seller
Released: November 15, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy is leading a scientific expedition and the Chinese who have a hidden settlement nearby are trying to stop them. Saulters and his outlaw gang are also in the area looking for a gold mine. When Saulters men attack, the gold mine is found. Hoppy agrees to file for the Chinese and heads after Saulters in the chase to the land office.
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Outlaws of the Desert
Title: Outlaws of the Desert
Character: Man from Waukegan
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
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Outlaws of the Desert
Title: Outlaws of the Desert
Character: Cowhand
Released: November 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
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Riders of the Timberline
Title: Riders of the Timberline
Character: Bartender
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.
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In Old Colorado
Title: In Old Colorado
Character: Blacksmith
Released: March 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Joe Weller has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
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Doomed Caravan
Title: Doomed Caravan
Character: Travers Hand
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
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Law and Order
Title: Law and Order
Character: Burly Vote Counter
Released: November 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Bill Ralston arrives in town planning to settle down but quickly gets caught up in the fight between the townspeople and Poe Daggett and his gang. He takes the job of town Marshal and soon brings law and order. When Daggetts men ambush him he kills Poe's brother. Poe then kills Bill's friend Brant and this leads to the showdown.
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Three Men from Texas
Title: Three Men from Texas
Character: Burly Henchman
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
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Melody Ranch
Title: Melody Ranch
Character: Man at Trial
Released: September 15, 1940
Type: Movie
His Arizona hometown of Torpedo invites Gene back to be the honorary sheriff of the Frontier Days Celebration.
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The Ranger and the Lady
Title: The Ranger and the Lady
Character: Freight Wagon Driver
Released: July 30, 1940
Type: Movie
While Sam Houston in in the nation's capital trying to get Texas into the Union, his aide is trying to impose a self-serving tax on the use of the Santa Fe trail. The lady owner of a wagon train is using the trail, and a Texas Ranger comes to her assistance.
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Stagecoach War
Title: Stagecoach War
Character: Barfly
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Farmer
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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Adventures of Red Ryder
Title: Adventures of Red Ryder
Character: Burly Saloon Waiter
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.
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The Return of Wild Bill
Title: The Return of Wild Bill
Character: Blacksmith
Released: June 26, 1940
Type: Movie
When Matt Kilgore and his men frame and then hang an innocent man, Lige Saunders sends for his son Wild Bill Saunders who arrives to find his father shot by Matt's brother. When the brother is killed in his fight with Bill, Matt sends two fake Deputies to arrest Bill whom he then plans to hang. But Matt's sister, attracted to Bill, overhears the plan and rides for help.
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Hidden Gold
Title: Hidden Gold
Character: Townsman
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
Hoppy and Lucky have been called in to investigate a series of stage holdups. The robbers are taking gold from Colby's mine and Hoppy suspects it may be ex-outlaw Colby himself. When Speedy strikes gold, Hoppy borrows it and announces a gold shipment hoping to catch the gang and their leader.
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Riders of Pasco Basin
Title: Riders of Pasco Basin
Character: Big Brawler (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1940
Type: Movie
Kirby and Evans are pulling off an irrigation project swindle and newspaper editor Scott realizes it and sends for Lee. Lee agrees with Scott and forms a vigilante group to fight the Sheriff and his deputies brought in by Kirby. But a dying Uncle Dan sets the Sheriff straight and this brings the two sides together for the big shootout.
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Boss of Bullion City
Title: Boss of Bullion City
Character: Egg Trick Victim
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A lawman sets out to disrupt the operations of a crooked town boss.
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Cowboys from Texas
Title: Cowboys from Texas
Character: Bartender
Released: November 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Cowboys from Texas is a 1939 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman.Texas has opened up land for homesteaders. Clay Allison wants their land and has his men led by Plummer try to start a range war between them and the ranchers. With each side suspecting the other of their problems, the Mesquiteers realize someone else is responsible. Stony suspects Plummer and fakes leaving the Mesquiteers to join Plummer's gang hoping to find out who it is.
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The Arizona Kid
Title: The Arizona Kid
Character: McBride Raider
Released: September 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy.
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Dick Tracy's G-Men
Title: Dick Tracy's G-Men
Character: Thug in Truck
Released: September 2, 1939
Type: Movie
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
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New Frontier
Title: New Frontier
Character: Townsman at the Dance
Released: August 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The Three Mesquiteers convince a group of settlers to exchange their present property for some which, unbeknownst to our goodguys, is going to be worthless. They are captured before they can warn the ranchers.
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In Old Caliente
Title: In Old Caliente
Character: Smelter Worker Trying to Lift Gold Ball
Released: June 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include "Sundown on the Rangeland" and "Ride on Vaquero."
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Daredevils of the Red Circle
Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle
Character: Pipeline Thug
Released: June 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Escaped Prisoner 39013 impersonates the rich and influential Horace Granville, allowing him to create a variety of disasters. Fortunately, he is thwarted repeatedly by three daring circus daredevils.
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The Night Riders
Title: The Night Riders
Character: Allen - A Brawler
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres, taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who won't pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious "night riders" to fight this evil.
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Frontier Pony Express
Title: Frontier Pony Express
Character: Burly Townsman Spooking Stagecoach Horses
Released: April 11, 1939
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Civil War, Lassiter has a plan to get control of California. Working out of St. Joseph, he plans to send forged messages to the troops on the west coast via Pony Express. First he attempts to bribe Pony Express ride Roy Rogers. When Roy refuses he turns to the outlaw Johnson and his gang and this leads to trouble.
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Silver on the Sage
Title: Silver on the Sage
Character: Burly Cowhand
Released: March 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Hoppy goes undercover as a gambler from the East when Bar 20 cattle are stolen by unknown rustlers. Brennan/Talbot are twin brothers (one a casino owner, the other a rancher) and Hoppy believes they provide alibis for each other while one is out committing crimes. Hoppy gets a job in the casino to learn more but is exposed when a gambling gunslinger notices him.
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Rough Riders' Round-up
Title: Rough Riders' Round-up
Character: Henchman
Released: March 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Roy Rogers is a cowboy who joins the Border Patrol, only to have his buddy Tommy get killed at a local saloon. Determined to get revenge at any cost, Roy and Rusty cross the border in search of Arizona Jack, the man responsible for Tommy's death.
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Frontier Scout
Title: Frontier Scout
Character: Henchman
Released: September 16, 1938
Type: Movie
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant has a job for Wild Bill Hickok (George Houston) and his sidekick (Al St. John).
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Gold Is Where You Find It
Title: Gold Is Where You Find It
Character: Miner (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870's, which is flooding the area's prosperous farmlands. Despite Ferris' political stance, Jared Whitney, a mining engineer from the East, becomes friends with the colonel's son Lance and falls in love with his daughter Serena. Family tensions deepen when the colonel's brother Ralph gives up farming to go to San Francisco to work for his wife Rosanna's father, Harrison McCooey, a leader in the mining venture. When Lance follows Ralph, the colonel, focusing his anger on Jared, forbids him to see Serena.
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North of the Rio Grande
Title: North of the Rio Grande
Character: Juror
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
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Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Title: Hopalong Cassidy Returns
Character: Pete
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper editor recruits his old friend Hoppy to take the job of Marshall in a town rife with vice and murder directed at helpless miners.
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Deadwood Pass
Title: Deadwood Pass
Character: Henchman 'Forty-Four'
Released: May 5, 1933
Type: Movie
The Hawk has broken out of prison and the Sheriff and Sorrenson have a plan to have Whitlock pose as the Hawk, infiltrate the gang, and recover the stolen bonds. All goes well until The Chief who knows the real Hawk arrives.
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Robbers' Roost
Title: Robbers' Roost
Character: Mac
Released: December 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to Herrick’s sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the Sheriff about the raid. But when his plan is overheard he is made a prisoner.
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Come on Danger!
Title: Come on Danger!
Character: Texas Ranger / Stanton Rider (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1932
Type: Movie
Sam Dunning, one of the wealthiest ranchers in the Pecos Valley is found dead with a bullet in his back. Pinned to his body is a note which reads "An eye for an eye, signed Joan Stanton". Danger follows for Larry, a Texas Ranger. Will his sense of chivalry allow him to bring in a woman to face the charge of murder? Along the way, several cowboy tunes and fine locations contribute to the picture's Texican atmosphere.
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Beyond the Rockies
Title: Beyond the Rockies
Character: Townsman (uncredited)
Released: July 8, 1932
Type: Movie
A noted gunman takes a job on a cattle ranch to stop a band of rustlers.
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Freighters of Destiny
Title: Freighters of Destiny
Character: Windy
Released: October 29, 1931
Type: Movie
A young man seeks vengeance on the outlaws who killed his father.
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Sundown Trail
Title: Sundown Trail
Character: Burly Henchman
Released: September 11, 1931
Type: Movie
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
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The Canyon of Missing Men
Title: The Canyon of Missing Men
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him.
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Western Honor
Title: Western Honor
Released: May 15, 1930
Type: Movie
Bob Steele is a young rancher who refuses to give in to a gang that is seeking to deprive he and his partner of the contract for supplying cattle to a railroad construction camp. And the gang-leader also has his eye on Bob's sweetheart, Ione Reed.
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The Fighting Legion
Title: The Fighting Legion
Character: Ed Hook (as Bill Nestelle)
Released: April 5, 1930
Type: Movie
After being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. Dave becomes Marshal but when Bowie, the man that shot Dawson appears, he exposes Dave as an imposter. Dave is then in trouble when Edwards incites the mob to lynch him.
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The Man from Nowhere
Title: The Man from Nowhere
Character: Dan McCloud (as Bill Nestel)
Released: April 4, 1930
Type: Movie
A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde niece. Everything ends okay after one killing.
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Hell's Heroes
Title: Hell's Heroes
Character: Barfly (uncredited)
Released: December 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.